Improved camp table or stool



UNITED STATESY PATENT OFFICE.,

JOHN CRAM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CAMP TABLE OR. STOOL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,470, dated May 12, 1863.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN CRAM, a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Camp Tables or Stools 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying' drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of one of my improved tables in an unfolded state. Fig. 3 represents an end view of it, and Fig. 4t a transverse section of it in a folded state.

The object of my invention is to produce either a camp table or stool whose legs may be readily folded together and against the top or seat, and so as to render the whole portable and capable of occupying little space when packed. for transportation or while being stowed away.

In the drawings, A denotes the top of the table or stool, as the'case may be, there being two cleats, B B, fixed to and projecting from the under surface of -such top. Each of the cleatsis grooved on its inner surface, as shown at C in Fig. 2, and also in Fig. 5, which is an inner side view of one of the cleats. A rod, D, extends from one cleat to the other, and serves to connect two folding legs, E E, with the cleats, these legs being joined by diagonal braces, c a, and so applied to the rod D as to be capable of swinging or turning freely thereon. The set of legs E E is embraced by two other legs, F F, which are connected together by two rods, b b', and to the legs E E by pins G G, which pass freely through the legs EE and are fastened in the legs F F. The two ends Vof the bar b project in to the grooves G C, as shown in Fig. 6, which is a longitudinal section of the said bar, the legs F F, and the cleats B B. Each groove near one end of it is provided with lan upward turn or locking recess, e, which receives the projecting ends of the bar b when the table is in an unfolded state, the said bar b under such circumstances being kept in place by a catch, f, on which it or a metallic plate, g, xed to such bar, is sprung, the said catch being formed and made to project from the top A, as shown in the drawings, Fig. 2.

The above peculiar construction of a table ora camp stool enables it to be either unfolded, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or to have its parts folded together, as represented in Figs. 3 and 4.

I claim- The improved camp table or stool, as made with the latching apparatus or its equivalent, and the recessed guide grooves arranged and combined as described, with the table-top and the two folding sets of legs applied together, substantiallyY in manner and so as to operate as specified.

JOHN CRAM.

Witnesses: l

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

